A woman, married for 10 years, has an extra-marital affair and gets pregnant. She debates on whether she should tell her husband and plays out various scenarios in her mind about how he will react to her confession. The film unspools from Radhika's mind as she imagines her husband's possible reactions to her predicament. The structure of alternative realities borrows from a traditional musical form, the "Thumri", where a single thought is expressed in a multiplicity of moods. While the setting is urban contemporary Mumbai, its exploration of love is based on the enduring
myths of Lord Krishna, the eternal lover and his beloved Radha, who represents the eternal seeker. Newcomer Maia Katrak and sensational theatre actor Boman Irani provide riveting performances with a realism and truth unsurpassed in modern
Indian cinema.
Accompanying Director :
RAM MADHVANI
Ram Madhvani directs for Equinox Films Private Limited, amongst the leading production houses in India, in which he is also a partner.
With over a decade's experience in the profession, Ram has worked with every important advertising agency in the country to become one of the fraternity's most respected and sought-after filmmakers.
To add to the numerous national awards that he has garnered, Ram won a Bronze Lion at the 2000 Cannes Advertising Festival.
Ram firmly believes that if technique is to be used it has to be used for emotion. One of the prime examples of this is his film for Adidas which was path-breaking in many ways.
It was the first time in the world that someone was attempting the time-slash technique with an array of video cameras. Despite warnings from international gurus to abandon the method, Ram persevered and triumphed.
Ram looks on every film as a challenge to explore the nuances of visual language. And yet, while he pursues his researches into tonal qualities (both visual and aural) the interplay of human emotions continues to be the bedrock of his cinema.
In "Let's talk" Ram makes his debut as a Feature filmmaker. (Something he's been meaning to do since age 16.) Ram believes that his advertising work (which he will continue to pursue) will benefit and improve from his feature film experience.
Ram would like his epitaph to read: "He died of an overdose. An overdose of cinema"
Accompanying Actors :
BOMAN IRANI
Boman Irani was born on 1st October 1962 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is part of the Parsi community. He is married to Parizad Zoranbia and has two sons called Danesh and Kayur. He started out selling potato chips. Before long, photography appealed to him and then later it was the call of theater. He has worked with Alyque Padamsee in the play Roshni and in Mahatma Vs Mahatma by Feroz Abbas Khan.
He grew into a familiar face when he started working in ads like CEAT Tyres and Smyle Cough Syrup. He received offers to work in movies in supporting roles and his presence in movies has grown stronger over the years. In 2000, he worked with Shah Rukh Khan in Josh and in Rahul Bose’s Everybody Says I’m Fine (2001) as a man who has molests his daughter. He worked in another big hit Munnabhai MBBS (2003) as Dr.J.C.Asthana and as an editor in Madhur Bhandarkar’s critically acclaimed movie Page 3 (2005). In the dark comedy Being Cyrus (2006) he played a role that was on the negative side. He has done his share of comedy with movies like Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006), Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd (2007) and Heyy Babyy (2007). Dostana (2008) was a commercial success and saw him as a gay editor of a fashion magazine.
In the early part of 2009, he was seen as the fun loving Burman Presswala in Little Zizou. He is working in another big project called Three Idiots which stars Aamir Khan and will be in the sequel Munnabhai Chale Amerika.
August 29, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm at Stanley Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center
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